[nos-bbs] Copying files with packet

[Bill Vodall WA7NWP]

A long long long time ago, in another galaxy far away (Montana)
I went through the steps to add FIDO net to my blazing 386sx16 Linux
box.   Part of that process included tieing the FIDO system to the standard
UUCP Email delivery system I was using at the time.   I found it fascinating
that it was possible to define different transport mechanism's (fido phone
call...) for different email addresses -- like @fido.org.

Even though peace and harmony has been restored to the galaxy thanks
to the universal force of TCP/IP -- I keep thinking of that old experience
with alternate email delivery.   All the old tools for UUCP bundling and
delivery of Email, files and news group postings are available for any stock
Linux system.   The missing piece to make use of this with our amateur
radio packet system is a generic file transfer mechanism over packet.  Something
like scp or rcp or even uucp.   Say  ax25cp!

So for example if the AC7YY que directory on my system had files, an regularly
scheduled process could do something like:

  cd  $SPOOL/AC7YY
  for i in * ; do
    ax25cp $i AC7YY:$i
  done

Hmmm.   The AC7YY could even be a script like NOS uses for mail forwarding instead of just
a simple connect to a <CALL-SSID>

Once that file was at the AC7YY system, the contained messages would be uncompressed, unpacked
and delivered.

Does anything like this AX25cp exist? --  Preferably for basic Linux AX25 but any other packet
application would give us a good starting point.


Thanks,
Bill - WA7NWP